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by pikzen 10y ago
Because people seemed to love 80MB Chrome runtimes being bundled with terrible Electron applications on the desktop, Crosswalk allows you to bundle 40MB of chromium for your terrible application on Android.
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by pikzen 10y ago
There's a reason /r/ProgrammingCirclejerk is basically /r/HackerNews
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by pikzen 10y ago
No, I was just pointing out that linking your arguments to Paris attacks was complete crap and that you ought to check your facts of you want to give any credibility to your arguments.
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by pikzen 10y ago
The Paris attackers were French. So were the Nice ones. They were third generation immigrants. Are you suggesting to vet all of these? If yes, you've got some work ahead of you, considering your country is one of immigration.
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by pikzen 10y ago
Aaah, yes, automating the job of 2000 workers on a car construction line will certainly be replaced by 2000 service jobs. And those jobs will not be requiring higher education that these workers don't have, right. Also, basic income is
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by pikzen 10y ago
Seeing it from afar, it's worse than that. Seems to me it's full of temporarily embarrassed Zuckerbergs that also happen to be blind to the reality of the world.
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by pikzen 10y ago
No. The money might have been from the US. But the creation of the CEE, then later the EU was born of the will of European leaders. Martin Schultz had listened to the US but they weren't the driving force.
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by pikzen 10y ago
The plan to drop out of the EU was removed from the FN's website because it was the one measure that was too unpopular with their voter base. Of course, it may just be for appearances, but I guarantee you that any Frexit plan would sta
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by pikzen 10y ago
I'm sorry this has happened to you. I hope it can serve as a warning to other HNers that companies are not your friends, and that it's never worth investing yourself like crazy in it as an employee. Any employer will throw you und
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by pikzen 10y ago
For 90% of the usage of SIMD instructions where people just want to parallelize iterating on lists, yes, that's reasonable enough. Apple Accelerate isn't a SIMD API, it's a higher level API that happens to use SIMD for its ut
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by pikzen 10y ago
.Net offers reasonable SIMD access through the System.Numerics package. Roslyn offers writing plain IL Assembly, which is heavily used throughout SharpDX, and ultimately, P/Invoke is fast and allows you to call any C++ library you migh
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by pikzen 10y ago
Except you're going to have a terrible time building a new hotel complex in the middle of already existing apartments. The bill for sound insulation is going to be massive. And if you get inspected and it turns your you are not within
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by pikzen 10y ago
Romania (and if my memory serves me right, a lot of eastern european countries) have heavily invested into their internet infrastructure. Huge costs for their government, but it is paying off. As a result, almost the entire country has high
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by pikzen 10y ago
I find it hilarious that this product exists. For so many reasons. A noise meter for your (most likely illegaly) rented apartment so your neighbors aren't bothered. I wonder how else that could be fixed... Oh right, regulations on nois
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by pikzen 10y ago
>Debian: slow to upgrade and doesn't support newer hardware zzzzzzzz This is said so often it's not even fun anymore. Debian stable is made for servers, for stuff that's not going to move for ten years and is supposed to b
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by pikzen 10y ago
Except I didn't start with money. I'm not working to get money, I'm working to be able to afford things. Money is just a convenient exchange tool. It doesn't have any utility to me aside from being pretty much the only w
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by pikzen 10y ago
>If I choose to buy goods from you, it's because I value the goods more than the money I pay, and you value the money I pay more than the goods. Uh... No? If I pay you, it's because you have something I need. I'm not givin
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by pikzen 10y ago
Are you going to pretend that no civilians were killed during the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? If you don't, you have your crime. Killing civilians was pretty damn widely agreed upon on that it's not acceptable. The US com
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by pikzen 10y ago
That doesn't change the fact that it was a crime, even at the time and considering the conditions.
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by pikzen 10y ago
If he's on Android, the app can use SafetyNet[0] and rather accurately detect rooted devices, or even devices with bootloader unlocked. [0] https://developer.android.com/training/safetynet/index.html
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by pikzen 10y ago
Even then, the loot crate model that is heavily present in most games today, pioneered by Valve in TF2, CSGO, DotA2 and slightly modified in Overwatch is based on those gambling addiction mechanisms. Random items, different rarities, etc. I
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by pikzen 10y ago
Sometimes, I wonder if there's a market for a service to tell people off when they're being rude, inconsiderate or plain dicks. Sod Off as a Service. I just keep reading and reading examples of OSS maintainers receiving mails just
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by pikzen 10y ago
You could consider that Alphabet buying Nest and them shutting down all service was in a way Google stopping operations on that. But I believe that is mostly related to the unending list of services they have stopped. Code, Reader, or even
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by pikzen 10y ago
I know the entire IoT sphere is completely pants on head stupid these days but... Android. On an embedded product. Even with no UI (assuming it will all be controlled through one gateway), Android doesn't scream "efficient with it
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by pikzen 10y ago
* Each voter signs off his name on the registered voter list before dropping it into the ballot box. If you want to do multiple votes, it's going to be harder. Anyone can come and watch those. * Unboxing the ballot is done in public,
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by pikzen 10y ago
Less often than I have had my earphones fall out because I was running, or doing anything that requires my head to move a little. AirPods look to be perfectly fine (and extremely expensive for what they bring) if your usage of them is while
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by pikzen 10y ago
>So far automation has not resulted in net fewer jobs Yes. Yes it has. Manufacturing has seen hundred of thousands of jobs replaced. And the amount of software developers or maintenance jobs created to make that work doesn't even be
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by pikzen 10y ago
VC funding is extreeeeemely hard to acquire in France, basically. So we're probably not going to get startups growing insanely fast, and they're going to be bootstrapping themselves. Which might not be a bad thing really. I'v
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by pikzen 10y ago
Taxes are actually lower than in most US states, when it comes to profits. Obviously we have a lot of added taxes when it comes to salaries (by paying an employee 2000€/month, as a company you can expect to pay ~4000€ when you add up e
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by pikzen 10y ago
Obviously webapps are a thing apart because browsers only support JS. But otherwise... C++. .Net-based languages. JVM-based languages. (although I am not aware of any tool that works on iOS) Hell, in most of the platforms you can use your l

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